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Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month

08-27-2010, 01:00 AM

Phoronix: Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month

Prior to the emergence of Btrfs as a viable next-generation Linux file-system, Sun's ZFS file-system was sought after for Linux due to its advanced feature-set and capabilities compared to EXT3 and other open-source file-systems at the time. While ZFS support has worked its way into OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and other operating systems, ZFS had not been ported to Linux as its source-code is distributed under the CDDL license, which is incompatible with the GNU GPL barring it from integration into the mainline Linux kernel. Next month, however, a working ZFS module for the Linux kernel without a dependence on FUSE will be publicly released.

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I don't see why not? If you have the source code, and you know it's supported for Ubuntu 10.04, then why shouldn't it work with your own kernel as long as it's not too far from Ubuntu's version number?

Just saying.

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If they're targeting Red Hat and Ubuntu, then this implies that they use non-kernel stuff. Otherwise, they would simply target the upstream kernel and be distro-agnostic, which is the easiest approach.

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If they're targeting Red Hat and Ubuntu, then this implies that they use non-kernel stuff. Otherwise, they would simply target the upstream kernel and be distro-agnostic, which is the easiest approach.

So you think there's some non-kernel stuff in Fedora 12, RHEL 6 beta 2, and Ubuntu 10.04 that somehow can't be made to work on any other distros?

Sounds like they're just targeting easy package management integration into those specific distros, and the code itself probably does target the upstream kernel.